5.45am - Rise with Mrs Grendel
6.45am - make large take away coffee for Mrs grendel and load her and the kids in the car
7.00am - deposit Mrs Grendel at polling booth where she will be doing her duty as a polling officer.
7.15 - take Junior Grendels on a tour of beach and parks.
8.00 - vote
8.15 - drive home
8.30 - spend the day with the Junior Grendels until the next-door-neighbours birthday party starts
2.00pm - Birthday Party
4.00pm - soccer training
5.00pm - back to birthday party
6.00pm - home
7.00pm - hey there's an election on - perhaps I should live blog it?
7.01pm - Naaa, can't be bothered.
[update] No word from Mrs Grendel, still hard at work I imagine. Getting hungry, will eat dinner without her shortly.
don't you unfortunate lot have to vote by law - even if all the candidates (as is usual) are tossers?
ReplyDeleteMrs greenman worked at Hawker Park polling station yesterday, I had to do a few coffee runs after desperate phone calls for a caffeine fix to keep her functional.
ReplyDeleteWe do have to turn up at the polling booth, but once you are there with your ballot in your hand you don't actually have to write anything on it.
ReplyDeleteAs we have a comparatively small population (and particularly the size of the population at federation) the compulsory voting arrangement worked quite well - and now it is 'tradition'.
Doesn't change the tossiveness of the candidates however.